Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun sg] for [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The argument for seasonally adjusting monthly unemployment figures is that only then can the observer tell whether a given monthly increase in unemployment is the normal variation for that time of year or an unusual rise which policy-makers should be concerned about . |
| 2 | No Sally 's new at the job , we 've been working at this for for on on the technical front for some time , now let's just sit down and and work out what we 're gon na do . |
| 3 | He has been waiting for the right offer for some time after turning down an approach from Italian club Pisa several seasons ago . |
| 4 | On Tuesday evening , the family heard that a housing association had struck a deal with a local farmer to buy a house which will be refurbished , extended and rented to the family , but a last minute call yesterday morning to the Scottish Office for more time to allow the family to move was turned down . |
| 5 | He watched the empty darkness for some time afterwards . |
| 6 | But shares have been reflecting the new-found confidence for some time . |
| 7 | If it gets as far as a decision , it will prove the leading case for some time on the thorny issue of what duty regulators owe the customers of the regulated . |
| 8 | Archbishop of the second great German province , Cologne , his family had combined the secular and the ecclesiastical princedom for some time . |
| 9 | If a friend was visiting the Policyholder and tripped over a loose carpet there could be liability subject to the Policyholder being negligent , ie if the Policyholder had been aware of the loose carpet for some time and had done nothing to prevent an accident happening . |
| 10 | I had been preoccupied with the alchemical vision for some time , but it had become words , ideas , a mere prejudice in favour of the angels , if you like . |
| 11 | Most of the songs on ‘ Bizarro ’ had been regulars in the live set for some time but newer ones like ‘ Crushed ’ and ‘ Brassneck ’ were aired for the first time over the August Bank Holiday at the Reading Festival and John Peel 's 50th birthday party on August 29 . |
| 12 | Conscious that she had been crawling around in the hot sunshine for some time without a hat , she retired a short distance to the shade of some trees , sat down on a convenient boulder and tried to conjecture how Alain Gebrec might have spent his last moments . |
| 13 | Large end plates tend to ‘ stick ’ to sea beds when grounding and when they do come off have been known to carry around lumps of the said seabed for some time . |
| 14 | If the Policyholder had been aware of the faulty roof for some time and had taken no action to prevent damage to the home , there may have been a breach of the reasonable care condition . |
| 15 | ‘ Oh , it 's been around the common room for some time now . ’ |
| 16 | It started round about eighteen twenty one although actually there there 'd been erm er simmering discontent in the amongst the Christians in the Balkan area for some time . |
| 17 | The militarists have had the upper hand for some time . |
| 18 | At this stage you may also be in contact with the social services who may have been supporting the new client for some time . |
| 19 | with all its attendant trivialities , occupied the Royal Society for some time and even King George III was drawn into the argument as is shown by the contemporary jingle : |
| 20 | ‘ The effects of the Chancellor 's Budget are not expected to be felt in the local economy for some time . ’ |